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In every news story, the image is a key element to give visuals on what they are reading about. To emerge the audience into the story, where words can not.

But pictures and photographs were not corporated into journalism at all. It was all about the written words. For example, The old established Times had pages covered in small fonted words, hardly without space.

It was not until Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French painter who changed his interests to photography, who is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.

Henri Cartier- Bresson had sought moments which he considered ‘decisive’ and captured them with his camera. One of those moments were ‘Military Appraisal at Moscow Trolley Stop’ (1954).

Behind this picture, Cartier-Bresson was preparing for a book record in Moscow, of the daily life of its population and this image contains many evidence. For instance, wires over the sky, and soldiers patrolling on the streets of a Soviet nation, with high polished boots and hats. Everything is uniformed and seems well engineered. This is what Lenin had wanted in the first place, to be the ‘engineer of souls’.

For more pictures, the Times website has a full photo essay on his works.